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Monday 19 February 2024

Can a Rape Victim Abort Fetus?

 


Aborting a fetus in case of rape has been ruled as permissible in some cases by eminent Muslim scholars. However, abortion must be performed before the expiry of 12 weeks of pregnancy and not after. For it is at this point that soul is breathed into the fetus; therefore abortion afterwards is wholly forbidden unless it is done in order to save the mother’s life.

- aboutislam.net

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